Challenge Update

I still hate push ups. Perhaps more now than I did 2 months ago. I'm better at them and my arms are hard as rock, but I hate them. My strategy for them for September worked out a little better. For July and August, I did them regularly and tried to average 30 to 40 per day. For September, I did 100 per day and was able to not do them nearly as much. In 3 months, I've gone from doing "comfortably\easily" (I use these words loosely since I'm still talking about doing the push ups I loathe) 10 at a time to being able to do 20 to 25 at a time. I realize I'm far from passing any armed forces boot camp, but it's an improvement for me and that's all that matters. To reward myself to my dedication to (suffering through) them for 3 months, I'm giving myself a month off. Not that I won't be doing any, but I'll do them as part of my regular workouts and not try to achieve doing tons of them. 3000 over the last 3 months is pretty darned good, though (if I must say so myself).

I still don't hate sit ups. I did 2500 during September. I could pump out about 300 of those (easily) far quicker than "getting through" my 100 push ups. I still don't have a 6 pack. However, I do have a shadow of a 4 pack. Though, when I asked Mike if he could consider it a 4 pack, he said "almost." I pretty much take that to mean "honey, you're cute but no"....I'm still saying it's more there than not. Honestly, the only way I'll have one is if I lose more weight. I'm not sure that's a reasonable goal at this point. I think I would need to become a professional athlete in order to do that. Since I'm not that talented at anything, I don't see it being a lucrative career move. So, I'll just keep with the measured sit ups since I don't mind them. I like having something to do while watching tv. Sitting still is not exactly my forte.

Speaking of weight, I've been getting back to my weight loss lows. I kept staying a couple of pounds over it due to all the vacations, traveling, parties, showers, weddings, bbq's, birthdays....you name it! This summer had a lot of eating events! This last week I've been getting back (and staying at) my low so I'm pretty happy about that. I just don't think it's realistic or reasonable to truly lose any more. I'm happy where I am. How many times can a gal say that in life?!?! Plus, looking at my weight loss graph, I've been maintaining (plus or minus) this weight for 6 months. I've heard the 6 month "magic number" from a few sources that it's the amount of time that your body takes to "reset" to a weight. Meaning, if you weigh X amount, your body wants to continue to maintain that (hence the difficulty of weigh loss). So, hopefully, this is where my body will continue to want to stay.